diff --git a/swig/CMakeLists.txt b/swig/CMakeLists.txt
index 9ac8f808fc1760ec77ad44246d5585bc912874fa..2aae6939c8c31b5eec45faf9086429e00d109cd9 100644
--- a/swig/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/swig/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -27,18 +27,17 @@ INCLUDE(${SWIG_USE_FILE})
 include_directories(${Libmaca_SOURCE_DIR} "../libmaca")
 link_directories(${Libmaca_BINARY_DIR})
 
-# Python 2 support ended on 1st January 2020.
-find_package(PythonLibs 2.7)
-find_package(PythonInterp 2.7)
 
+find_package(PythonLibs)
+find_package(PythonInterp)
 # idea taken from pyplot build system 
-#execute_process(
-#	COMMAND
-#	${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -c "from distutils import sysconfig; print sysconfig.get_python_lib(1,0,prefix='${CMAKE_INSTALL_EXEC_PREFIX}')"
-#	OUTPUT_VARIABLE PYTHON_INSTDIR
-#	OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
-#)
-set(PYTHON_INSTDIR "lib/python3.6/dist-packages")
+execute_process(
+	COMMAND
+	${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -c "from distutils import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_python_lib(1,0,prefix='${CMAKE_INSTALL_EXEC_PREFIX}'))"
+	OUTPUT_VARIABLE PYTHON_INSTDIR
+	OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
+)
+#set(PYTHON_INSTDIR "lib/python3.6/dist-packages")
 message(STATUS "INFO: " "python lib: ${PYTHON_INSTDIR}" )
 
 INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${PYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH})